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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- An island in the East River off the coast of central Manhattan Island. It was long the site of a penal institution and municipal hospital, which earned it the name Welfare Island after 1921. Renamed for Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1973, it is now largely residential.
- An island of Antarctica in the eastern part of the Ross Ice Shelf. Robert E. Byrd discovered the island in 1934.
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LEMON: If you're -- if you're in Manhattan, you have got Roosevelt Island, which is just on the other side of the East River, and then, from that, a certain part of Queens, and ...
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CONWAY: They do here; it's called Roosevelt Island and --
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CONWAY: They do here; it's called Roosevelt Island and --
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Roosevelt Island, which is visible from the sculpture park, was once known as Welfare Island; it housed a women's prison, "and the two most famous inmates who spent some time there were Mae West and Billie Holliday, so we thought they would be fantastic sirens," Ms. Michahelles said with a smile.
NYT > Home Page By MELENA RYZIK 2011
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Does/did a recording of this piece exist - along with whatever else went with the entire work of "Roosevelt Island"?
Meredith Monk. 2009
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The first video I am showing you here comes from Sourabh Banerjee who lives on Roosevelt Island which is on the East River between Manhattan and Queens, he said he was in his study when he heard a loud explosion, he saw the smoke and grabbed his video camera.
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Both schools are considering Roosevelt Island, where they want to build campuses of about 2 million square feet.
City Mulls Approving Two New Campuses Joseph De Avila 2011
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The field is to be determined, though Roosevelt Island is a current option.
Splitting Hairs for Charity Marshall Heyman 2011
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Stanford University, which is aggressively pursuing a chance to win city land and money from the Bloomberg administration, is in talks with City University of New York officials about teaming up on a bid to construct an engineering and applied-sciences campus on Roosevelt Island, people familiar with the matter said.
Stanford Bid Intensifies Jacob Gershman 2011
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The Bloomberg administration has offered three city-owned sites—Governors Island, Roosevelt Island and the Brooklyn Navy Yard—as potential venues for a new school, as well a subsidy worth up to $100 million.
City Mulls Approving Two New Campuses Joseph De Avila 2011
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